Definition of Pip

1. Noun. A disease of poultry.

Generic synonyms: Animal Disease

2. Verb. Kill by firing a missile. "They want to pip the prisoners "
Exact synonyms: Shoot
Related verbs: Hit, Shoot
Generic synonyms: Kill
Specialized synonyms: Flight, Pick Off
Derivative terms: Shooter, Shooter, Shooting

3. Noun. A minor nonspecific ailment.
Generic synonyms: Ailment, Complaint, Ill

4. Verb. Hit with a missile from a weapon.
Exact synonyms: Hit, Shoot
Generic synonyms: Injure, Wound
Related verbs: Hit, Strike, Blast, Shoot, Shoot
Specialized synonyms: Gun Down, Grass, Kneecap
Derivative terms: Hitting, Shoot, Shooter

5. Noun. A small hard seed found in some fruits.
Generic synonyms: Seed

6. Verb. Defeat thoroughly. "The fighter managed to pip his opponent"; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
Exact synonyms: Mop Up, Rack Up, Whip, Worst
Generic synonyms: Beat, Beat Out, Crush, Shell, Trounce, Vanquish
Derivative terms: Whipping

7. Noun. A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit).
Exact synonyms: Spot
Group relationships: Playing Card
Generic synonyms: Mark, Marker, Marking

8. Noun. A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface.
Exact synonyms: Blip, Radar Target
Generic synonyms: Radar Echo

Definition of Pip

1. n. A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

2. n. A seed, as of an apple or orange.

3. n. One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.

4. v. i. To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.

Definition of Pip

1. Abbreviation. (television) picture-in-picture - A television technology allowing a second channel to be displayed in a small rectangle as an onscreen overlay over the primary channel being displayed. ¹

2. Proper noun. A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, and Philippa. ¹

3. Noun. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. (defdate from the 15th c.) ¹

4. Noun. (humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) A pippin. ¹

6. Noun. A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as an peach, orange, or apple. ¹

7. Noun. (US colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality. ¹

8. Noun. (British dated WW I signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet ¹

9. Noun. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc. ¹

10. Noun. (military public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman. ¹

11. Noun. A spot; a speck. ¹

12. Noun. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip. ¹

13. Noun. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation ¹

14. Verb. To get the better of; to defeat ¹

15. Verb. To hit with a gunshot ¹

16. Verb. To peep, to chirp ¹

17. Verb. (context: avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg ¹

18. Noun. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call. ¹

19. Noun. (context: finance currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pip

1. to break through the shell of an egg [v PIPPED, PIPPING, PIPS]

Medical Definition of Pip

1. A contagious disease of fowls, characterised by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them. Origin: OE. Pippe, D. Pip, or F. Pepie; from LL. Pipita, fr. L. Pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Cf. Pituite. A seed, as of an apple or orange. Origin: Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pip

piosity
piot
pioted
piots
pious
pious fiction
pious fraud
pious platitude
piously
piousness
piousnesses
pioy
pioye
pioyes
pioys
pip (current term)
pip-squeak
pip-squeaks
pip emma
pip out
pip pip
pip to the post
pipa
pipage
pipages
pipal
pipal tree
pipals
pipamazine
pipamperone

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